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Windows 7: Make Full screen actually look full screen

Hi guys, as most of you know, graphic cards are definitely my weakest point, so hopefully someone can help me.

Since upgrading my graphic drivers from 257.21 to 266.58 when I play a game (or other full screen application) I get a "letterbox" effect with about 3 inches being missing from the top and the bottom of the screen.

Im guessing that for some reason the graphics card is thinking my monitor is widescreen when it's not, but I'm damned if I can find a way to unset it in Nvidia Control Panel.

It seems to be on all games, I only play 3 games normally, Flight Simulator 9, The Sims 3 and Sid Meier's Pirates, and I have noticed the "Letterboxing" on all of them. I play all games on 1024*768 resolution, although my monitor is 1280*1024.

I found the option, but I only have the option to adjust the screen position, it says nothing about scaling. I think I'll try pushing it to 1280*1024 see how it goes, I know FS and Pirates should be fine with it, Sims might be an issue but I guess I can turn down the graphic settings a little.

I was thinking of trying turning my resolution down to 1024*768 before I start playing but I suspect that won't help as the monitor is still a 1280*1024, unless for some reason the driver isn't adjusting the resolution properly when going full screen

Interesting, yes it is only on 2 sides, just the top and the bottom are effected. As I said, it looks like when you watch a widescreen video on a standard screen, you get the black bars at the bottom and the top.

That may explain the letterbox. No instruction available to the monitor to adjust the image. EXCEPT that it worked before. It is reasonable that you should expect your newest driver update to maintain this functionality.

I am confident, therefore, that we are missing a setting in your driver control panel OR the newest driver has a flaw.

I do not have an nVidia card at my disposal to to investigate the driver menus. I do recall how I had to wrestle with ATI's Catalyst on each update to deal with scaling/overscan. Oddly, Catalyst now automatically makes the adjustment for me. (I re-install OS's frequently)

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